Second To Sun are hailing from St Petersburg, another mighty band from the awesome Russian underground scene. This album is in fact re-release of their previous album, which was instrumental only, but this time the guys recorded the vocals and I had a privilege to listen and review it for this webzine.
This record contains 10 songs of melodic post black metal with some groove metal influences and in whole it sounds really dark and dismal. The production on the record is awesome and sounds really mighty and takes you to some dark places whether you want to go there or not. Although the bio of the band says that they are like purveyors of groove post black metal, you scene purists don´t give up on this record because this is black metal pure with bleak and great atmosphere of despair, anger and depression. I loved “Region 13” being for me the best song on this record but I also loved “The Fool” and its rolling rythms complexity and some eerie background sounds making it sound awesome. All the other songs are also excellent, so check out this record you won´t regret it, cause it is a fine piece of Slavic metal.
Russia is a huge country with huge and awesome proactive underground scene. Coming from Moscow, this time REMARK is here for me to listen and review for this zine.
This e.p. contains four songs, two of them being the band´s own songs, and two covers being “Shout” originally by Tears for Fears, and other “Too close” by Alex Clare. The first song “Comeback” was not something I liked very much because I never loved grunge when it was big in the 90-ies and this song sounds just too grungy for me, like Stone Temple Pilots or bad version of Alice in Chains. The second song “Purple Haze” was also grungy but not too much and has a nice melody making it enjoyable and the best song on this record. Tears for Fears cover was okay, predictable, nothing special but okay. The other cover I have never heard originally, so I can˙t judge but I guess it was also okay. Too grungy for me, but maybe fans of such music will love it!
I just love underground extreme music scene and discovering new and dismal and great sounding bands. I found another one and Lautreamont is worth your time if you like Slavic black death metal with lyrics in native Russian language.
Formed in 2015. and hailing from the utter depths of Russia, namely Novorossiysk, a port city on the Black Sea in Southern Russia this avantgarde black death metal trio released one e.p. “Insomnia” and took their time in preparing the full length album because I believe they wanted everything produced and prepared for the fans to be just perfect. When the record started to play, the first thing I noticed was how strong the bass sounds in the production like it is carrying the song structure. The second thing I noticed are some eerie back melodies in the first song “Evil” and how the band sounds tight and well played. “Father” just blew my mind with machine gun riffing and I almost felt torn from within with this music. The lyrics are in Russian and the atmosphere is dark, bleak and it images the bleak and desperate greyness of post Soviet Russia. the country which inspired a lot of dark songs and awesome bands. The title song is for me one of the best songs on the record with epic but raw atmosphere. “Psalm” again has some eeried sounds that is like electronic mixed with singing in the background and it sounds awesome. “Epitaph” mixes slow almost sludgy atmospheric parts with some proggressive and straight brutal parts making it an awesome soundscape. The last song “Coda” is an instrumental with almost dark ambient vibe and with it we accept the inevitable end. Awesome album!
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